different between displacement vs misplacement

English

Etymology

From French déplacement.

Morphologically displace +? -ment

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?s?ple?sm?nt/, /d?z?ple?sm?nt/
• Rhymes: -e?sm?nt

Noun

displacement (plural displacements)

1. The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.
   • 1793, Alexander Hamilton, Loans […]

     Unnecessary displacement of funds.

   • 1837, William Whewell, History of the Inductive Sciences

     The displacement of the sun by parallax.

2. The quantity of a liquid displaced by a floating body, as water by a ship, the weight of the displaced liquid being equal to that of the displacing body.
3. (chemistry) The process of extracting soluble substances from organic material and the like, whereby a quantity of saturated solvent is displaced, or removed, for another quantity of the solvent.
4. (fencing) Moving the target to avoid an attack; dodging.
5. (physics) A vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component.
6. (grammar) The capability of a communication system to refer to things that are not present (that existed or will exist at another time, or that exist at another location).

Translations

See also

• Displacement (linguistics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

mis- +? placement

Noun

misplacement (countable and uncountable, plural misplacements)

1. Bad placement.

   His misplacement of his foot sprained his ankle.

   The misplacement of the supply shed at the far corner of the field resulted in great loss of time.